“I think 2013 is the year of hybrid cloud – it’s really starting to take off now. It’s the combination of public cloud, private cloud and dedicated infrastructure working seamlessly together to provide the best application platform, but it’s also providing reliability, availability, pe...

Big Data has existed since the early days of computing; why, then, is such an industry buzz around it right now? In this Big Data Power Panel at the 3rd International Big Data Expo, moderated by Big Data Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corpora...

In this demo at 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Impetus Technologies looks at Ankush, a Big Data Cluster Management Solution and how to manage multiple vendor clusters from a single interface.
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In this demo at 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, walks through how Cloudant deploys their clusters.
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A 2013 McKinsey survey reported that 75% of CEOs find value for their company in Cloud Computing. Given the well-documented perception of risk, are these established brands now coming to cloud to leverage "brand momentum" and create a "fresh start"? What are the pitfalls as these estab...

In this demo at 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Erik Vider, Manager of the SAP on the Cloud Partner Program, looks at the cloud application market.
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How fast will the last remaining barriers to enterprise-wide cloud adoption melt away – are truly secure public clouds feasible, for example, or only private ones? In this CTO Power Panel at 12th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Dennis Quan, Vice President of Sm...

“Cloud is not so much about a place, it’s about a way of delivering and handling these very dynamic, very large scale computing environments,” stated Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City...

“In AppZero what we do is we pick up applications and move them from one machine to another and the cloud context is the big use case is to move stuff from the data center to the cloud,” explained Greg O'Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference C...

It is common to see providers deploy cloud instances using automation, but what happens when these same principles are applied to the provisioning of the infrastructure?
In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Jean-Sebastien Bruneau, Cloud Architect at OVH.com, provides insider in...

What are the remaining barriers perhaps still preventing some companies from moving some of their on-premise computing to the Cloud, in whole or part? What specific Cloud implementations can we be most proud of, to date? In this CEO Power Panel at 12th Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Ex...

“IBM’s perspective on cloud computing has been about a systematic approach, to saying what’s the impact on the underlying business as a whole and from that perspective saying cloud computing certainly is the way we need to move,” stated Bruce Otte, Director of the IBM SmartCloud Platfo...

In their General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Kedar Poduri, Director of Product Management, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, and Jonathan Cohen, Technology Solutions Business Development Professional at Alcatel-Lucent, discuss CloudBand, a joint cloud solution and architecture.
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Compelling consumer applications are created every day. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? A...

These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though?
In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Rishi Bhargava, VP of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, helps you explore and addr...

“With all the attacks that have been going on recently around the password where users are no long under threat individually but en masse, we decided to scrap the password and replace it with something visual,” explained Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CEO of Leeward Security Ltd, in this SY...

Cloud computing environments with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources require an elastic infrastructure that can be rapidly scaled and dynamically reconfigured. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. The ...

“The Cloud Credential Council focuses on cloud training and certification so we are basically helping to fill the gap for the people who need to have the skills related to cloud,” explained Marcel Heilijgers, Executive Director of the Cloud Credential Council, in this SYS-CON.tv interv...

“We are continuously expanding and we recently announced a new data center in Copenhagen, and our eighth data center in Frankfurt, so we now have 34 data centers,” stated Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Global Marketing Manager for Interxion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conf...

There’s no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a completely new set of requirements that go far beyond ...

In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and inno...

“SharePoint in the cloud – that is what we do in a nutshell. SharePoint is a complex platform and we try and simplify that by saying we’ll take care of it, we’ll put it out there in the cloud and we’ll manage it for you,”explainde Rob LaMear, CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net, in this SYS-CON...

“We are a three and a half year-old company now, we’re in the third-generation of our product, and it was really a solution for people to deploy and manage more complex applications in clouds. We are now making a transition to more of an enterprise customer,” stated Paul Speciale, CMO ...

“This cloud wave started for us in the hosting industry, which has been around for quite some time, and we really got into high availability hosting and cloud solutions,” stated Kenneth Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Gee...

“We give organizations a way to store their data in the cloud, and this year we have unveiled on-demand Disaster Recovery as a Service,” stated Nicos Vekiarides, CEO of TwinStrata, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Clo...

“We are a tier-1 carrier for the US. For the last year and a half we have been launching Infrastructure as a Service platforms and today we are announcing our enterprise cloud platform – it’s a network-centric cloud offering,” stated Tripp O'Hara, Managing Director, Cloud Solutions at ...

“A lot of end users are accessing content, they are going on the websites, and they have no idea they are probably traversing through the Akamai platform, probably on a daily basis, or at least on a weekly basis,” stated Gary Ballabio, Product Line Director for Akamai's Enterprise Clou...

“You need to educate people around the cloud. Get them smart and with the cloud it’s something where it touches so many different people these days rather than traditional data centers where people were in the basement,” stated Marc Halcrow, North America Regional Manager at ITpreneurs...

It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap onl...

“Think about IPsoft as a remote infrastructure management company, managed services done very differently in two flavors. One, being able to manage anything, anywhere in an information services platform and two, the way in which we solve problems – we do automation by learning what it ...

“Appcore delivers a product called Appcore AMP and it’s the industry’s only complete automated cloud management platform. Most of our customers are service providers – we had designed a product specifically for service providers,” explained Jeff Tegethoff, President of Appcore, in this...

“Health care has so much on its plate, whether it’s regulatory or technology. We really believe that health care will jump the other industries in its adoption,” stated Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions, Office of the CTO, at VMware, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud ...

“We have just recently launched a new product called Mission Critical Cloud, which is a VMware-based public cloud solution. We did that because we are seeing more and more demand to outsource and to outsource in a cloud fashion from larger enterprises,” stated Robert Miggins, Senior Vi...

“We are saying to customers – embrace the cloud for the benefits it provides but do it with eyes wide open. Make the decisions for the right reasons, and we are helping them figure out what those right reasons are,” explained Omar Khawaja, Global Principal, Security Solutions, at Veriz...

“NaviSite has a long history in managed hosting, co-location, and cloud services for the large enterprise and business market and it was a nice way for the parent company [Time Warner Cable] to expand into the cloud space,” stated Sandra Palumbo, Director of Product Marketing at Navisi...

Before talking about the cloud of tomorrow, in his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Kevin Clarke, Director of Cloud Platform Engineering for Verizon Terremark, describes what core characteristics compose the cloud of today, and discusses three fundamental features: independent archi...

Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...

“Intrinsic-ID is a spin-off of the security experts team of Philips Research, and we bring here Saturnus, a secure cloud application that protects data in the cloud,” stated Tony Picard, VP of Business Development at Intrinsic-ID, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference...

“We basically simplify infrastructures. We use the latest devops and SDN technologies to make it simple for people to operate virtual infrastructures,” stated Mathieu Lemay, President and CEO of Inocybe Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy ...

“We were early starters in Big Data. We cover everything around Big Data – from real time to analytics to visualization. We believe in taking on challenging problems and then solving them, bringing not only our expertise to the table but our experience as well,” explained Sanjay Sharma...

DevSecOps – a trend around transformation in process, people and technology – is about breaking down silos and waste along the software development lifecycle and using agile methodologies, automation and insights to help get apps to market faster. This leads to higher quality apps, greater trust in organizations, less organizational friction, and ultimately a five-star customer experience.
These apps are the new competitive currency in this digital economy and they’re powered by data. Without data or data-based interactions, these apps would be of little value to the user and would be just s...

The nature of the technology business is forward-thinking. It focuses on the future and what’s coming next. Innovations and creativity in our world of software development strive to improve the status quo and increase customer satisfaction through speed and increased connectivity.
Yet, while it's exciting to see enterprises embrace new ways of thinking and advance their processes with cutting edge technology, it rarely happens rapidly or even simultaneously across all industries.

With the modern notion of digital transformation, enterprises are chipping away at the fundamental organizational and operational structures that have been with us since the nineteenth century or earlier.
One remarkable casualty: the business process. Business processes have become so ingrained in how we envision large organizations operating and the roles people play within them that relegating them to the scrap heap is almost unimaginable, and unquestionably transformative.
In the Digital Era, however, everything you thought you knew about business processes, and thus how human effort dr...

Blockchain. A day doesn’t seem to go by without seeing articles and discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley, approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In Gartner’s recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the ‘Key platform-enabling technologies to track.’ While there is a lot of ‘hype vs reality’ discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.

Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.

These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, internal or external, solving different purposes, but mostly categorized into the following two categories. Data lakes is a term used to represent disconnected but relevant data that are used by various business units within an enterprise. APIs are created as the easy access points for these siloed data lakes.

Every time there’s a notable cybersecurity breach, someone (even me) writes a comprehensive primer on the proper way to create “secure” passwords. Lather, rinse, repeat. Until a few years ago, everyone (including me) based their password advice on a 2003 paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with the catchy title “NIST Special Publication 800-63.” The paper recommended that passwords be cryptic, contain special characters, and be as close to nonsense as possible.

Today most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes significant work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and increase in speed. Sometimes in order to reduce complexity teams compromise features ...

Automation is enabling enterprises to design, deploy, and manage more complex, hybrid cloud environments. Yet the people who manage these environments must be trained in and understanding these environments better than ever before. A new era of analytics and cognitive computing is adding intelligence, but also more complexity, to these cloud environments. How smart is your cloud? How smart should it be? In this power panel at 20th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists looked at the evolving nature of hybrid cloud, how it affects enterprise IT staffing requirement...

21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS – software, platform, and infrastructure as ...

Thanks to the plethora of communication and messaging apps available to the average user, unified communications (UC) is becoming more important than ever before. UC is a set of products and services designed to give employees a uniform communications experience, integrating different apps and channels to a singular point of interaction. For example, UC might allow a transcript of a voicemail to be delivered to a recipient’s email, enabling a central communication location that comprises multiple mediums at once.

Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the connection between building better software and business agility has been a tenuous one at best. But now...

Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they have fallen into time and time again.
Unfortunately, we've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends: badly.

Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number w...

I’ve always felt that bringing an economics perspective to our big data and digital transformation discussions is more important than a traditional accounting or even information technology (IT) perspective. Heck, I believe that a Chief Data Officer’s background should be more along the lines of economics than IT. Economics brings a forward-looking perspective on creating value (wealth). In fact, economics is defined as “the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer (capture) of wealth.”

Fintech is a lucrative, yet quite saturated market. In order to stay competitive, businesses should keep track of the emerging trends and be able to capitalize on them before their competitors do. Artificial Intelligence is currently among the most promising fintech trends. Leading financial brands such as Capital One, MasterCard, as well as hundreds of startups have set the pace for the adoption of virtual financial advisors. If you want to stay ahead of your competition or simply explore the opportunities for AI in fintech, this article is for you.

The Internet giants are fully embracing AI. All the services they offer to their customers are aimed at drawing a map of the world with the data they get. The AIs from these companies are used to build disruptive approaches that cannot be used by established enterprises, which are threatened by these disruptions. However, most leaders underestimate the effect this will have on their businesses. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rene Buest, Director Market Research & Technology Evangelism at Arago, will discuss the digital enterprise evolution in the context of artificial intelligence.

SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.

Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architect, will explore how storage and software-defined solutions from IBM have evolved for the road ahead....

Cloud computing budgets worldwide are reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no organization can survive long without some sort of cloud migration strategy. Each month brings new announcements, use cases, and success stories.